Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first, second, and third marshals, elected by preferential ballot, will lead the class parades on class day. The class treasurer cooperates with the permanent class secretary in management of the class funds, both officers being elected for life terms...
...whole ministry. Her party became so large that the General Court feared the result of the coming election and moved to the Cambridge Common, then eight miles from Boston, in the correct belief that some of the Hutchinson party would not take the day off to cast their ballot...
...President of the U. S. made answer to the woman election clerk as he went to cast his ballot. Accompanied by wife and mother he had driven through a pouring rain to Hyde Park's town hall...
Biennially Calvin Coolidge used to board a special train, whisk off to Northampton, Mass., drop his vote marked with a cautious x into the ballot box. His electoral duty done, that President would then whisk back to Washington. In 1928 Herbert Hoover went to Palo Alto to drop his vote and hear election returns which put him into the White House. His ballot in 1930 was cast by mail. In 1932 he crossed the continent for the first and only time during his Presidency, again to vote and hear election returns which put him out of the White House. Franklin...
...Governor Merriam would win, the election. The Literary Digest poll said the same thing?2½-to-1. The gamblers' money had switched to Merriam at 5-to-1. Almost as hysterical as his opponents, Sinclair charged that "208 experienced gangsters" had been brought from New York to substitute "stuffed" ballot boxes for the official ones...